Our commitment to the environment

As one of the world’s leading airlines, Qatar Airways flies to more than 150 destinations operating one of the youngest fleets in the sky. More than 200 new aircraft are on order to ensure that Qatar Airways continues to operate a fuel-efficient fleet. This investment underpins our commitment to the environment and ensures a first-class travel experience for our customers.

As a member of oneworld, Qatar Airways works with partner airlines to achieve even more efficient air travel. This includes supporting Air Traffic Control authorities to move towards more efficient airspace management and collaborating to enable passengers to use e-tickets throughout their global journey to reduce the printing of paper tickets.

Climate change

Aviation will make a significant contribution to the global response to climate change, and we are contributing towards the development of local and international solutions.

Qatar Airways is collaborating with industry associations IATA and AACO and SAFUG on the development of a global policy for managing aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions and is fully compliant with regional schemes such as the European Union Emission Trading Scheme.

Qatar Airways is enhancing the efficiency of air travel through our fuel optimisation programme. This involves testing and implementing new ways to save fuel and reduce carbon emissions such as:

Preventing Illegal Wildlife Transportation

Qatar Airways has a zero tolerance policy to the illegal transportation of endangered wildlife. Wildlife trafficking is the world’s 4th largest illegal trade, estimated to be worth $19 billion per year. The trade in endangered species of animals and plants, fuelled by demand for jewellery, decorations and unproven medical treatments, is needless and has tragic consequences for global conservation.

International aviation can be targeted by traffickers to unknowingly transport endangered wildlife. In response to this global threat, Qatar Airways is committed to:

Raising awareness

Improving detection

Sharing intelligence and best practice with the industry

Qatar Airways is proud to be an inaugural signatory to the United for Wildlife Transport Industry Declaration and a partner in the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) Partnership.

Sustainability reporting

At Qatar Airways Group, we believe in our responsibility to care for the environment. We are committed to demonstrating environmental leadership through our global airline and airport operations, aviation and catering services, retail outlets and hotels. We openly communicate our environmental performance to develop the trust on which long-term environmental leadership is built.

Each year we prepare a Sustainability Report to provide information on the environmental issues that are most important to us and to our stakeholders. The reports set out the progress we are making towards our environmental objectives and present examples of what we are doing to continually improve our environmental performance.